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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 7h

Do we know who called whom - whose idea the call was?

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deckard1979.bsky.social @deckard1979.bsky.social · 23h

Sitting in relative comfort in the UK and overcome with anger over the sheer audacity and scale of this betrayal to the free world. I can barely imagine how it feels to you.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h

essentially becoming sponsors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Just a day after a horrific terrorist attack by Russia that killed so many, and just before the winter when the Russian government screams from all the rooftops that they are going to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h

So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 12h

Trevor Poutine is a Canadian history professor. This is on public executions and why they were stopped. Once.

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 09/10/2026

A Russian glide bomb strike on two minibuses in Kramatorsk killed 33 people and injured 22 others on the morning of 8 October. This is the everyday reality Ukrainians are forced to live through, as Russia continues to show utter disregard for international law and human life.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection

Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Samara oil pipeline hub is on fire in russia. Notice how it’s not an apartment building, kindergarten, school, or hospital like when russia attacks Ukraine, but the aggressor’s economy, attacked to limit the aggressor’s ability to wage war, not to murder kids in their beds.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good morning, a field of tulips to brighten your Thursday ☺️ Have a good day 🙏

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 07/10/2026

This morning, Russia completely destroyed a five-story residential building in Pryluky, Ukraine. Five people were killed and 26 injured, including five children.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

⛰️ #HillfortsWednesday Burnswark: (Dumfriesshire) hillfort surrounded by two Roman camps. One of the most remarkable concentrations of Roman fire power found at a native site in Britain. Lead sling bullets, ballista balls & bolts, & arrowheads tell the story of a Roman assault. 📷 ©TrimontiumTrust

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People like Blake Stephenson never name the "no go zones", do they? Probably because if they did people would go and take photos of themselves having coffee there just to clown on him.

Luton has 'no-go zones' for white people, claims MP ,
ANDREW SINCLAIR/BBC
Blake Stephenson was speaking at a Conservative Party conference fringe event

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The barrel-vaulted choir ceiling at Carlisle Cathedral. The decoration dates to restoration work carried out in 1853, but the main ceiling timbers are 14th century in date. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #CarlisleCathedral

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are (I think) 22 rows of 8 panels, making 176 in all. Curiously this is the same as the number of verses (176) in the longest psalm (119), which is itself constructed in 22 sections of eight verses. I've always wondered whether this is significant or just a random coincidence #Carlisle

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 05/10/2026

This Saturday, multiple Russian drones and missiles violated Moldovan airspace and exploded on Moldovan soil. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 60 drones and missiles have violated Moldova’s airspace, with at least 27 crashing in its territory.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ukraine is expecting another large-scale Russian attack tonight. Their planes are reported to be in the air already and on their way to bomb Ukraine. We are going to spend another night hoping that Russian missiles don't strike our home. It's a deadly lottery,

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who were they "liberating" Poland from in 1939? The Poles?

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 06/10/2026

Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Russia 154th out of 180 countries, 49 places below Ukraine and 82 below the lowest-ranked EU member state. Worth keeping in mind when Moscow next casts itself as a corruption watchdog elsewhere.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Barbara Castle MP, born #OTD 6 October 1910, walks through Cathedral Square, Blackburn. She holds the Equal Pay Act 1970, which she piloted through Parliament and into law. She was a Blackburn MP for 33 years.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So the Tory plan to cut recorded pollution incidents, like sewage spills by water firms, is to scrap the agency doing the recording...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched?

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 06/10/2026

Russia’s information operations don’t always look like propaganda. Sometimes they look like a local journalist, an independent expert, or an ordinary article in a familiar outlet. Except the journalist never existed.

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 06/10/2026

At the Valdai conference, Putin warned Europe about the dangers of what he called European ‘escalation’. On the same day, Russian drones struck residential buildings in Kyiv and several major bridges while civilian traffic was moving across them.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...

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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tories are copying from Trump who is copying from Reagan whose Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) failed to achieve its promises & was ultimately terminated in 1990 after spending around $40bn. The program did not develop a viable missile defense system as intended.

Screnshot from FT:

Tories pledge ‘Britannia Shield’ to protect UK from drone attacks
A planned network of radar, command and control systems and interceptor missiles would strengthen defences against aerial threats

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Trump Revives Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile Defense Aspirations

President Donald Trump Jan. 27 signed an executive order that on paper appears to revive the Reagan era plan to create a space-based missile defense system designed to protect the homeland from a variety of aerial threats.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧵The 'Magna Via' was the medieval and early-modern road eastwards out of Halifax. It was part of the main route to Wakefield and came to be known as the 'Wakefield Gate'. With the arrival of carriages and carts two by-passes were built to the north (the

The Magna Via in Calderdale, Yorkshire, which is an ancient sunken road or holloway.Also known as the Wakefield Gate, it served as the main medieval and early modern highway connecting Halifax to Wakefield. Centuries of use by travellers, horses, and carts carved the path deep into the earth, creating steep, tree-lined banks.

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think there was once a clue in the Guardian's crossword that read "Archer successful as storyteller? (11)". Answer: "Bullshitter"

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you just substitute the words 'working age' for 'fighting age', suddenly the arrival of youngish men and women doesn't sound threatening. Rather, it sounds like exactly what we need for an ageing population.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's incredible that no BBC interviewer seems to have challenged her on this

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Kemi Badenoch was really a "classic old-school Conservative" she wouldn't be trashing Churchill's legacy by removing the UK from the ECHR

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When people say things were better in the past it might mean that there were more local shops, banks, a post office less traffic, local pubs; a good network of friends. All of these could have changed for the worse. Nothing to do with immigration really

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On the day after the referendum I remember saying to someone "the worst thing about this is we're going to leave and then we're going to spend the next 20 years trying to get back in and by then I'll be retirement age..."

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 28/09/2026

On 10 February 2022, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia had ‘no plans to invade Ukraine’. Five days later, he dismissed reports of an imminent invasion as ‘Western hysteria’ and claimed Russian troops were already returning to their bases. Nine days later, Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On this day in 1873, a Czechoslovak Jewish woman was born. On the 13 Jan 1943 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 15 Dec 1943 to Auschwitz where she perished. Her name was Růžena Felixová Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whitby's a good example of the typical protestant practice of the pre-Victorian Church of England. The entire church was focused on the pulpit rather than on an altar. Communion was only celebrated twice a year in most C of E churches, and even then most parishioners did not receive communion. 🧵

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching in real time how the quality journalism of @english.lemonde.fr is now gaining traction, spread, & recognition here on BlueSky. One of the strengths of 'Old Twitter' was media presence. I'm glad serious papers are increasingly here now, and being discovered.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026

Josh Babarinde MP "So many of our businesses who used to have thriving trade with European Union countries, now just struggle." "There are so many barriers in place, so many bits of paperwork that you've got to navigate, so much red tape to try and cross."

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stolpersteine are modest yet powerful reminders of the capacity all of us have for cruelty and dehumanisation in pursuit of cheap popularity. What can start as easy gossip/name-calling can escalate alarmingly. If I were German, Stolpersteine would make me proud of my nation

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Peter Dyke @peterdyke49.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is shocking and disappointing - I cannot think why any town, even one run by the awful AfD, would want to ban #Stolpersteine, which are always so moving and affecting to discover www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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